Jak Savage

With the influence of outstanding Social Work practice, Jak has navigated children’s social care as a child and adult social care.  She has faced health, mental health challenges and acquired disability along the way and still has a long way to go.  

Recently, Jak has become Jak Savage MBE for 32 years’ service to Social Care and shares her life journey of 47 years lived, worked, and learnt experience.  Bringing to the forefront of her work, changes and impacts of current Social Work, Care and Health delivery.  The essential recognition of the effectiveness of Social Work within hospital settings, within the community, the NHS and how this benefits someone like her in a life journey.  

Jak has a passion for getting the assessment and review process right for those that draw upon care and support, educating others on the role of budgets, support planning and care.  Strengths based, humanising, flexibility in budget use and reablement processes carrying on beyond

Sharing her vision of how this relationship between health and social care is one to value, evolve and grow for the benefit of patients and those that draw upon social care.  Considerations of what trauma informed practice looks like from a recipient perspective and how care when planned can elevate and impact wellbeing.  Not just simply meet need.

Jak works as a Social Care Consultant across England delivering workshops to Social Workers and Local Authorities on her journey, coproduction and strengths based, person centred care and support.  Some of Jaks other work include;

•     Judge for the Social Worker of the Year Awards

•     Individual Employer of her team of 4 Personal Assistant’s at home

•     Patient Involvement Bank – NHS North Tees Foundation Trust

•     PPPLE Involvement Co-Production Steering Group – NHS North Tees Foundation Trust,

•     Chair of the Making it Real Board at Stockton-On-Tees Borough Council

•     Social Work Trainer

•     Co-production Advocate

•     Recipient of a Care and Health personal budget

•     Advocate for widening adult participation and project design.

Adding to national guidance on Proportionate Assessments with the Chief Social Workers Office at the DHSC Jak has worked against the odds to defy a life she has lived through to now give her 360 degree lived and worked experience to influence Social Work and Social Care Practice for those that draw upon care and support.  To invest her time into shaping policy, add to research in Health and Social Care and take steps to overcome her own barriers to employment through complex trauma, mental illness and disability.  Jak has more recently contributed to research for both health and Social Care in 2024.  Notably writing the Chief Social Worker for adults blog for World Social Work day 2024.

Appearing alongside the Chief Social Worker, AMHP Network and the PSW Network for Social Work England’s webinar March 2024.  Presenting her views on ‘What’s next for Adult Social Care and Mental Health in the year ahead’.   For the last year working with Local Authorities directly, presenting at Cambridge Adult Services Conference 2024 and NHS CNTW Health Authority Social Work Conference 2024.  Co-working with Coproduction Collective as a co-producer on their own projects and NIHR funded research on a range of health and social care topics.   Lived experience is at the forefront of Jak’s focus and how co-producing support and care has the power to transform lives.

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